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Trump went off on his political talking points at the 2017 National Boy Scout Jamboree. Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock A Boy Scout is, apparently, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. That’s according to the Scout values that many are citing in contrast with President Trump’s …

Rep. Blake Farenthold (R), who has seen "Hamilton" one too many times. Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images/Pat Sullivan/AP/REX/Shutterstock With the GOP health care bill on life support in the senate, lawmakers are eager to find someone to blame. One Texas lawmaker focused his frustrations with some female senators from the Northeast” …

Image: Getty Images The 1980s were a very different time in the world. People called each other on house phones, played board games together, read Victorian literature by candlelight, fetched water from the town well, and sat by the window to wait for their sons to come back from war. …

It was a special moment. Image: JIM LO SCALZO/EPA/REX/Shutterstock The all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan that was initially denied entry to the United States for an international competition is taking home the silver medal. SEE ALSO: The Afghan girls robotics team will now be allowed into the U.S. Fittingly, they …

Fox News went after Trump using his own words against him. Image: Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images Fox News snuck in some biting screen captions Tuesday as news about the GOP healthcare bill implosion unfolded. And yes, we do mean Fox News – the network that has generally avoided negative stories about …

RIP health care. Image: GOMBERT/EPA/REX/Shutterstock The gig economy owes a lot to Obamacare. In the wake of the financial crisis, as smartphones were just becoming the norm, millions of Americans were out of work. Then, Uber hit the market one year before Obamacare was passed, and suddenly, the gig economy …

Providence, Rhode Island (CNN)Governors confronted President Donald Trump’s top health officials over the cost of the Republican health care push to their states in a tense, closed-door session here Saturday. But their efforts left major questions unanswered, Republican and Democratic governors said.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)The last time Sen. Bernie Sanders was in Iowa, there was an election to win. It was November 2016 and Sanders was barnstorming Hawkeye State college towns, trying in vain to drum up support for Hillary Clinton. Making the first of two scheduled summer visits here, the …

(CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Saturday that the Senate will delay consideration of the Republican health care bill while Sen. John McCain recovers from surgery for a blood clot. McCain is in Arizona after having a blood clot removed from above his left eye. His office said the clot …